Sync wtih Google calendar
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Is there any way to sync starcal events with Google cal ?
Not yet.
But you can export an event group (or all event groups at once) into a ics file, and import it on Google calendar.
I'm working on this (sync with Google Calendar)
But remember that Google API service is still blocked for IPs from Iran
I think you can use a proxy server for blocking problems
Yes I can
But how many users can do it? (use tsocks for example)
What about an additional paid options for proxy?
I think we can make make a Google calendar API proxy.
Can we?
I think I know what Sadegh means
Not a bad idea, I will think about it
Although authentication would be a big problem
I think you don't need to worry about poor Iranians, it's their problem. Implement synchronization in your app, Iranians can find a way for bypass blocking (as they always do).
If you're so interested in helping them you can create another module/service/app for this matter.
So please don't combine two separate issues into one ;)
For technical reasons, a good implementation of Google calendar sync is much more challenging than you think: because Google cal use iCalendar, and iCalendar is too old, messy and complicated, and it only supports Gregorian, while StarCalendar aims to support multiple calendars equally (so it uses it's own event structure & format which was also very hard to design & implement). So it's almost impossible to write a perfect implementation, and very hard to write a good implementation (which I'm trying to do sometimes). So if there is not enough use for this feature for us (Iranians), there is not enough motivation to do it.
I'm also thinking of writing a StarCalendar event API service as a replacement for Google calendar, but without any web interface, only a service to interact with desktop application.
That might be easier (and will be safer to use) than Google calendar for this international calendar.
So there are no separate issues, dear Keyvan. Everything is related to everything :)
Well, I wasn't aware of Google calender issues and thought the problem is blocked users. Writing API web service is great idea. I still insists those two issues were separate ;)
Thanks for explanation
I started the project: https://github.com/ilius/starcal-server
Although we have a long way to Go! I hope I can prepare a working release in a year
I'm gonna need a host (AWS maybe) and a domain.
Any helps are appreciated.